Power to stop proceedings when no complainant-S.249 of CrPC
The Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898
(ACT NO. V OF 1898)
CHAPTER XX
OF THE TRIAL OF CASES BY MAGISTRATES
Power to
stop proceedings when no complainant
249. In any case
instituted otherwise than upon complaint, a Metropolitan Magistrate, a
Magistrate of the first class, or with the previous sanction of the Chief
Judicial Magistrate, any other Judicial Magistrate, may for reasons to be
recorded by him, stop the proceedings at any stage without pronouncing any
judgment either of acquittal or conviction, and may thereupon release the
accused.
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